ABSTRACT

The primary aim was to describe speech and language abilities in a clinical group of verbal 5-year-old children diagnosed with neurological disability (ND) in infancy, and the secondary aim was to trace precursors to consonant production at age 5 years (T2) in data from 12 to 22 months (T1). The participants (n = 11, with Down syndrome (DS), cerebral palsy, and chromosomal deletion syndromes) were tested with a battery of speech and language tests. Consonant production at T2 was compared to data on consonant use at T1. At T2, two participants had age appropriate speech and language and another three had age-appropriate speech, but low results on language tests. The remaining six participants had severe speech and language difficulties. Participants with DS had significantly lower results on consonant production measures. An association between consonant production at T1 and T2 for participants with DS indicates that number of different true consonants might be a predictive measure when evaluating young children with DS.

摘要

主要目的是描述一组在婴儿期被诊断为神经功能障碍 (ND) 的 5 岁语言儿童临床组的言语和语言能力，次要目的是追踪 5 岁 (T2) 时产生辅音的前兆在 12 至 22 个月 (T1) 的数据中。参与者（n = 11，患有唐氏综合症 (DS)、脑瘫和染色体缺失综合症）接受了一系列言语和语言测试。将 T2 的辅音产生与 T1 的辅音使用数据进行比较。在 T2 时，两名参与者有适合其年龄的言语和语言，另外 3 名参与者有适合其年龄的言语，但语言测试结果较低。其余六名参与者有严重的言语和语言困难。DS 参与者在辅音产生测量上的结果明显较低。